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JEAN DE SCHELANDRE (c. 1585-1635)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 316 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN DE See also:SCHELANDRE (c. 1585-1635)  , Seigneur de Saumazenes, See also:French poet, was See also:born about 1585 near See also:Verdun of a Calvinist See also:family . He studied at the university of See also:Paris and then joined See also:Turenne's See also:army in See also:Holland, where he gained rapid See also:advancement . He was the author of a tragedy, See also:Tyr et See also:Sidon, ou See also:les funestes amours de Belcar et Meliane, published in 16o8 under the See also:anagram-name See also:Daniel d'Ancheres, and reprinted with numerous changes in 1628 under the author's own name . In See also:defiance of all rules the See also:action proceeds alternately at See also:Tyre, where Belcar, See also:prince of Sidon, is a prisoner, and at Sidon where Leonte, prince of Tyre, is a prisoner and pursues his gallant adventures . The See also:play, which was divided into two days and ten acts, had a complicated See also:plot and contained 5000 lines . It required an immense See also:stage on which the two towns shouldbe represented, with a See also:field between, where the contests should take See also:place . It is noteworthy as an See also:attempt to introduce the See also:liberty of the See also:Spanish and See also:English See also:drama into See also:France, thus anticipating the romantic revolt of the 19th See also:century . It has been suggested that See also:Schelandre was directly acquainted with Shakespearian drama, but of this there is no See also:direct See also:proof, although he appears to have spent some See also:time in See also:England and to have seen See also:James I . Tyr et Sidon is reprinted in the 8th See also:volume of the Ancien See also:Theatre See also:francais . Schelandre was also the author of a Stuartide (16 r 1), and of Les See also:Sept Excellents Travaux de la penitence de See also:Saint See also:Pierre (1636) . He pursued his military career to the end of his See also:life, dying at Saumazenes in 1635 from wounds received in the See also:German See also:campaign of See also:Louis d'See also:Epernon, See also:Cardinal de la Valette . See Ch .

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Jean de Schelandre (Paris, 1854) .

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